Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES
Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations
Subpart 15 - Statewide Order No. 45-I-A
Chapter 35 - Gas/Oil Ratios, Allowables, Venting and Flaring of Natural Gas
Section XIX-3503 - Definitions

A. Unless the context otherwise requires, the words defined in this Section shall have the following meaning when found in this Statewide Order.

Base Gas/Oil Ratio- amount of natural gas, in cubic feet, which may be produced with one barrel of oil from a well recognized by the Office of Conservation as an oil well without reduction of the base oil allowable.

Base Oil Allowable- amount of oil, in barrels per day, which may be produced from a well recognized by the Office of Conservation as an oil well before application of the base gas/oil ratio.

Commissioner- the Commissioner of Conservation of the state of Louisiana.

District Manager- the head of any one of the districts of the state of Louisiana under the Office of Conservation, and specifically the manager within whose district the well affected by this Statewide Order is located.

Horizontal Well-well with the wellbore drilled laterally at an angle of at least 80 degrees to the vertical and with a horizontal displacement of at least 50 feet in the pool in which the well is completed for production, measured from the initial point of penetration into such pool.

Oil Allowable- amount of oil authorized to be produced by the Office of Conservation from a well recognized by the Office of Conservation as an oil well.

Point of Delivery- point at which gas is vented to the atmosphere, whether from one or more wells or at any type of production facility.

Routine Flaring-flaring during normal oil production operations in the absence of sufficient facilities or amenable geology to re-inject the produced gas, utilize it on-site, or dispatch it to a market.